Commando Archive
Thread: The Devs, Fanfest, and Publish 18
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nbd9k
Tue Jun 14, 2005 7:43 am
#1
I was looking over the various fanfest reports, and noticed something interesting.
when the DEVs are happy about improving a profession, they discuss it directally. smuggler, for example, sounds like it will be pretty sweet when they overhaul the profession. they seem to be thrilled about the changes made to Jedi and bounty hunter (although in my opinion, it sounds like come wednesday BH is going to be hurting).
when commando was mentioned on the other hand, the tone took on a negative context. It seemed that their primary concern was that we were still too powerful, and were considering nerfing rifleman just to ensure we arent able to use sniper shot with area attacks. never mind that our area attacks still dont work. It also looked like they wanted to decrease our weapons range again, and i dont even want to think about what that will do to us combat wise.
wednesday may be a really bad day for commando.
a friend and i were looking at the slated changes for the pub, and it didnt seem to be alot of material- certainly not enough to warrent a full publish. My concern is with possible incomming stealth nerfs, that may directly effect our gameplay, and decrease our combat role even further.
sorry to be so negative; its not usually in my personality, but im beginning to feel this is hopeless. I thought we were in a spot where we could only go up, but just as i was starting to enjoy combat again, theyre going to take it away from me...
Starnick, tell me theres a bright side.
bikebum
Tue Jun 14, 2005 8:56 am
#2
I am *really* hoping we take a step forward rather than backward. I don't care if it is even a small step. Anything to keep me thinking they are looking at Commando issues. IE not just elemental fix since that is a big Jedi complaint. But even something as small as fixing Proton rifle since that would be commando specific. Or fixing the AOE's on our weapons.
And any DEV that thinks commando is overpowered has NOT played one since pre-CU and are basing their opinions on biased forum spammers.
Ohetie
StarNick
Tue Jun 14, 2005 1:29 pm
#4
Only bright side so far: Elemental has been fixed internally...
bikebum
Tue Jun 14, 2005 2:23 pm
#5
StarNick wrote:
Only bright side so far: Elemental has been fixed internally...
It is a bright side, but one that is not commando specific and therefore I still don't feel they are looking at addressing us anytime in the near future.
WolfGuy
Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:03 pm
#6
Maybe they will try to nerf us and we will get better... they tried to fix us and we got worse so maybe....
nbd9k
Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:46 pm
#7
i played around on TC the other day, just to submit the bugs again (to make sure they get noticed, hopefully) but was not particularly impressed with the elemental damage.
what it seemed like to me was that elemental damage was just added in on top of regular damage, and vunerability to a particular type of damage did not seem to have any effect. (i tested this with a few choice battle droids and a lightning cannon.)
by rights, if youre elementally vunerable, a shot of that element should do a great deal of damage to you.
i dont think they fixed elemental damage at all, i think they just turned it back on, so that lightsabers would do normal damage again
- supposedly LS have been under powered- did anyone other than the jedi notice?
really, one of the most sad things i saw in the notes was a complaint by the jedi that they are being mobbed by bounty hunting groups, and the DEV's planned response is to make bounties a 1 on 1 affair. however, it seemed like they planned to up the juice of the bounty hunter to do so, so not all that bad of a nerf.
rifleman, on the other hand, will be nerfed because of us, and i cant handle the guilt. besides, i like using sniper shot with rocketlauncher.
Tyreal18
Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:48 pm
#8
.....are the devs just that incompetent that they can't make it an exception for the specials that only rifles may use the snipershot special? Is it really THAT hard?
ipp350
Tue Jun 14, 2005 5:30 pm
#9
nbd9k wrote:i played around on TC the other day, just to submit the bugs again (to make sure they get noticed, hopefully) but was not particularly impressed with the elemental damage.what it seemed like to me was that elemental damage was just added in on top of regular damage, and vunerability to a particular type of damage did not seem to have any effect. (i tested this with a few choice battle droids and a lightning cannon.)by rights, if youre elementally vunerable, a shot of that element should do a great deal of damage to you.i dont think they fixed elemental damage at all, i think they just turned it back on, so that lightsabers would do normal damage again- supposedly LS have been under powered- did anyone other than the jedi notice?really, one of the most sad things i saw in the notes was a complaint by the jedi that they are being mobbed by bounty hunting groups, and the DEV's planned response is to make bounties a 1 on 1 affair. however, it seemed like they planned to up the juice of the bounty hunter to do so, so not all that bad of a nerf.rifleman, on the other hand, will be nerfed because of us, and i cant handle the guilt. besides, i like using sniper shot with rocketlauncher.
Hehe I always have to laugh at that one. The cry that their dps is only around 500 with a great saber and yet, the best flamers I find are around 550 modded dps
TK-863
Tue Jun 14, 2005 6:14 pm
#10
Tyreal18 wrote:
.....are the devs just that incompetent that they can't make it an exception for the specials that only rifles may use the snipershot special? Is it really THAT hard?
like only most carbineer specials can only be done with an automatic weapon?
RankorCity
Tue Jun 14, 2005 9:25 pm
#12
StarNick wrote:
Only bright side so far: Elemental has been fixed internally...
Its not in the patch notes...
Still trying to figure out why this is a publish, and not a patch....
RankorCity
Tue Jun 14, 2005 9:27 pm
#13
bikebum wrote:
StarNick wrote:
Only bright side so far: Elemental has been fixed internally...
It is a bright side, but one that is not commando specific and therefore I still don't feel they are looking at addressing us anytime in the near future.
Sadly, you are right.
Didnt the proton rifle work on TC-CU? AFTER they fixed (using the word fixed very loosely)it the first (or fourth) time?
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